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Originally Posted by pdurrant
On the whole it's because the entire series will be the output of a single writer or very small writing team, and all the episodes will be filmed and complete before the series is shown on TV.
So all the episodes of a UK TV series are essential, and there are no 'filler' episodes by guest writers, or the 'B' writing team that do not advance the plot or character development in any significant way.
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I'd also make a distinction between TV series that tell a specific story (eg a book adaptation), and those which are simply episodic in nature. An adaptation of a book should tell the story in as few episodes are necessary to do the job properly, whereas an episodic series (eg something like "Death in Paradise" - a police series set on a Caribbean island) can essentially go on as long as it has fresh stories to tell.